the term “cake day” just makes me think of r*ddit. I’ve seen Lemon Day going around, but we probably want to avoid affiliation with lemon party.
not that we can tell anybody what to do anyway, and each instance could even have its own. anyway, it needs to be something that obviously means “anniversary” and doesn’t require explanation otherwise it’ll just be annoying
I vote for garlic bread day
You’re account is tagged as a bot. Is that intentional? It’s a checkbox in account settings.
Thanks, I think I got it turned off, do you mind confirming? Apparently I can’t see it
Yup, gone.
Thanks, I appreciate you
I think ace people are using that already. /s
I think cake day is fine. It’s because you get a little cake icon by your name, every forum does that. That said, I think the lemon party concern is kind of a stretch, lol.
Just call it what you like. People will know what you mean from context. If we need a community consensus, it’ll develop naturally.
I think the concept of “account age” is not beneficial for some people like me.
Your account get two years, three years, but then for just that “big age number” you have difficulties to delete your account and quit the platform because “all of that would be lost”.
It’s roughly explained but you get the idea. It contribute to addiction for some.
Agreed, especially in Lemmy where accounts are bound to instances that you may not stick with. I’m a good example. I’ve been on Lemmy for over a year, but just abandoned my account on lemmy.world because I kind of hated it there lol.
I never celebrated my cake day on Reddit, and I was there for 15 years. I just don’t give a shit.
We don’t need a cake day.
Why the lemon party hate >:(
did you google it
I don’t need to google it, it’s a great site
i think cake day predates reddit
I was digging into that. can you find it? the top results claim that it was just from Reddit putting a picture of a birthday cake next to your join date
Fediversary?
Annual commemorative pastry observance
I like the idea that the event is about honoring pastry, rather than measuring time
Well it doesn’t help that they use the cake icon for it.
Not sure what else to propose calling it but anything else would be better.
On Hexbear I’ve only ever seen it called Molotov day
Mazel tov
a cake has been used to represent celebration of birthdays or anniversaries for longer than we’ve been calling them cake days
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Fucking pie, hell yeah
I’m down with this.
That’s March 14th, Albert Einstein’s birthday. But I don’t celebrate that, because I’m a Tauist.
Cake day.
Stop hating. Hating sucks.
Don’t. There’s no reason to care about the anniversary of someone creating an account on a website. “Cake day” as a concept was one the most insufferable reddit-isms, and will remain so no matter what else you call it.
You’re getting a lot of retorts in response to your comment, but I 100% agree. Sure telling people happy cake day is fun the first few times, but it inevitably just becomes stale. One of the things that made reddit not enjoyable was people parroting the same phrases all over the site.
Ok. So you’re saying your disillusionment should apply to everyone?
If you can’t have fun with it, no-one else should get to?
I was on Reddit for over a decade. Seeing people make posts to celebrate their anniversary for joining the platform was never stale.
Tolerating something a lot of people clearly have fun with costs you nothing, and trying to shut it down as “pointless” and “not fun” is such old man yelling “stop playing on the park lawn” type bullshit.
I mean, I’m not calling for a police state to shut down cake day or something. Just saying cake day was a shallow activity imo. People can choose to do whatever they want, but I would rather us think about what was actually valuable about reddit rather than just importing whatever preexisting culture there was.
But you DO act as if people won’t just bring over whatever they personally liked. As if there’s some debate to be had, and a kind of consensus to be reached about not doing so with stuff people like you arbitrarily consider “valueless”.
Even within your own framework of “value” can you really argue that something lots of people like, that doesn’t really cost anyone else anything, is somehow detrimental enough to oppose?
And who the fuck cares if it’s shallow? Positive online interaction is positive online interaction. How the hell do you come to the conclusion that having less of THAT would be an improvement?
Lol, I have come to the conclusion that I want less of whatever this is. Here’s your medal for winning whatever debate you thought we were having. 🏅
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Why do you hate people having innocent fun? Do you enjoy walking up to people who are smiling, and explaining that their reasons for doing so are dumb?
Lol, “insufferable”. News flash - there’s no “reason” to care about anything. Learn to find enjoyment in life where you can. You don’t get a reward for choosing to be miserable the whole time.
It’s just a bit of polite banter.
Don’t forget, this platform really is nothing more than a feature-rich chat room. It’s okay to have a little fun with it.
I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.
Yeah! Fuck fun!
Happy canal exit day!
Happy Bean Day
Lemmiversary
